AMMAN —Al Ghad— The median age for marriage has increased for males and females from 26 and 21.1 years of age in 1979 for both, respectively, to 30.2 and 26.1 years in 2015 according to the “Jordan in Numbers 2015” publication issued by the Statistics Department.

The women’s association Institute “Tadamon” points that life expectancy at birth has increased for both sexes from 62 in 1979 to 73.2 in 2015.